Kevin Logan’s Reviews > Mother Night > Status Update

I laughed. "Resi, darling-" I said, "you have a
full life ahead of you."
"I have a full life behind me—" she said, "all in
those few sweet hours with you."
"That sounds like a line I might have written as a
young man," I said.
"It is a line you wrote as a young man," she said.
"Foolish young man," I said.
"I adore that young man," she said.

"I think there's a chance I've made it attractive to you," he said. "I saw the play you've got running now, and I've read the one you're going to open."
"Oh?" I said. "And what did you learn from
those?"
He smiled. "That you admire pure hearts and he-roes," he said. "That you love good and hate evil," he said, "and that you believe in romance."